Create a seperate mailbox and then grant them all Full Mailbox Access and Send As permissions over it, they can then add it to Outlook under Options > Email Accounts > Select your account and click Change > Select More Settings > Advanced and they can access it at the same time as their own inbox.

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Create a seperate mailbox and then grant them all Full Mailbox Access and Send As permissions over it, they can then add it to Outlook under Options > Email Accounts > Select your account and click Change > Select More Settings > Advanced and they can access it at the same time as their own inbox.

Delegate access is a pain to manage though, its fine for one user granting access to others, but where you have a "dummy" account setting Full mailbox permissions makes more sense as it can be easily managed through the Exchange Management Console

Sorry, was typing fast then, open the existing account in account settings, where you see the window that you type the exchange server address and username in there is a More Settings button in the bottom right, then you see the Advanced tab where you can add additional mailboxes into your account.

There is actually a new option in Exchange 2007 to create a shared mailbox. I've created several using one of the exchange reference webpages to guide me, but I've had some issues with the options for sending. They work, just are stubborn to implement.

The shared mailbox creates a new AD user that is disabled by default. Which is somewhat interesting as you no longer have to maintain passwords for that account.

You can access the shared mailbox via webmail (as well as Outlook - and Outlook 2010 allows multiple Exchange accounts but that's a separate discussion) using a format following

We have signatures attached to our mailboxs, when adding another mailbox to the mix is there a way to have a different signature attached to it?? Three people share the "Orders" mailbox and a signature stating From the Orders Department would be awesome. Possible??